Case for indelible-ink bottles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD DANIELS, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASE FOR INDELIBLE-INK BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,469, dated August '7, 1860.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD DANIELS, of Northampton, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Case for Indelible-Ink Bottles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making pa-rt of this specification, in which- Figure l shows a vertical middle section of the improved case inclosing a bottle. Fig.

2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a view showing the case, with its bottom removed, in use for stretching a cloth over it for marking.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the three figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a neat and portable case for holding a bottle of indelible ink, for marking purposes, which will serve also to stretch the fabric to be marked.

It consists in the use of a hollow conical case with the bottom made so as to be removed -at pleasure, when the case is inverted, and the fabric to be marked can be properly stretched over its bottom, thus forming a stretcher and holder in one article, as will be hereinafter described and represented.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings A is a hollow conical box, which may be made of wood, metal, vulcanized rubber, or any suitable material. This case if made of hard wood may be readily turned in a lathe or made in any suitable manner. It has a flange a, projecting from its bottom, into which fits the circular bottom B; this bottom is afxed to the conical case by one spring Z), only, a notch being cut out at the opposite side, to the spring, by which the bottom piece may be easily taken off. The capacity of the space inside of the case A, is just suflicient to allow the conical ink bottle to fit into it; and the bottom B, when it is properly fitted within the fiange a, keeps the bottle inclosed securely within the case. The sides of the case are not straight, but are bell-shaped, terminating in a pointed cap or any simple ornament.

This case forms a neat and compact box.

for holding the indelible ink-bottle B, and by removing the bottle the case is to be used in an inverted position, as shown in Fig. 3, for stretching 'the cloth or fabric 'to be marked over its bottom by grasping the case, after putting the cloth over it, with the left hand; and while the cloth is held in this state it may be marked with the right hand.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hollow conical case A, with the removable bottom B, for the purposes described.

EDWARD DANIELS.

lVitnesses:

LUKE LYMAN, J. E. BRIDGMAN. 

